Collection ID: 0002 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Authors

• Mallācārya, active 14th century

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9972507553503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/965446825
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/7250755

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Language

Summary

Manuscript used for recitation and contemplation and is a 14th century poem (kāvya) dedicated to retelling the Hindu epic story of the Rāmāyaṇa. Manuscript is incomplete, comprised of the third sarga (section) and the opening verse and a half of the fourth sarga. The third sarga deals with the marriage of Sītā to Rāma. Manuscript is incomplete.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 33v).
   
• Written in 9 lines per leaf.
   
• 9 leaves foliated 22, 26-33, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• A single wooden board supports the manuscript.
   
• Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with double red line.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Subjects topical

• Sītā (Hindu deity)
• Rāma (Hindu deity)
• Hindu mythology
• Marriage--India--Religious aspects--Hinduism

Genres

• Poems
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--18th century
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--19th century
• Manuscripts--India--18th century
• Manuscripts--India--19th century

Licenses

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